NEW   YORK  UNIVERSITY 

THE  HALL  OF  FAME 

UNVEILING  of  BUSTS 
AT  THE  COLONNADE 
UNIVERSITY  HEIGHTS 
NEW  YORK  CITY 

Thursday,  May  21,  1925,  at  3:30  o'clock 


ORDER  OF  EXERCISES 


The  Chancellor  of  J^ew  York  ^  University 
ELMER  ELLSWORTH  BROWN 

The  "Director  of  the  Hall  of  Fame 

ROBERT   UNDERWOOD  JOHNSON 
Presiding 


' AVERT 


THE  HALL  OF  FAME:  PROCESSIONAL 


With  kindling  hearts  again  we  tread 
The  pathway  of  the  mighty  dead, 
Where  meet  and  pass  their  spirits  high 
Who,  tasting  death,  disdained  to  die. 

We  hail  them,  fathers  of  the  free 
And  prophets  of  our  destiny, 
Who  from  their  starry  height  control 
The  tides  that  flood  a  Nation's  soul. 

In  high  humility  we  claim 
Our  birthright  in  their  hallowed  fame ; 
With  widening  vision  we  would  rise 
To  the  horizon  of  their  eyes. 

God  of  our  Fathers,  grant  that  we, 
Who  keep  their  sacred  memory, 
Fail  not  when  prophecy  again 
Shall  smite  and  rouse  the  souls  of  men. 


Elmer  Ellsworth  Brown 

(From  "  Victory  and  Other  Verse") 


Order  of  Exercises 


The  procession  will  form  in  the  Rotunda  of  the  University  Library 
and  proceed  through  the  Colonnade  of  the  Hall  of  Fame  to  the  Pavilion, 
where  the  busts  will  be  unveiled  in  the  order  given  below: 


JOHN  MARSHALL 

The  bust,  by  Herbert  Adams,  will  be  presented  on  behalf  of  the 
donors,  Members  of  the  Association  of  the  Bar  of  the  City  of  New  York 
(through  Henry  D.  Williams,  Esq.),  by  Henry  W.  Taft,  Esq.,  President 
of  the  Association,  and  will  be  unveiled  by  W.  W.  Braxton,  Esq.,  great- 
grandson  of  the  Chief-Justice.  Hon.  William  H.  Taft,  Chief-Justice  of 
the  United  States,  will  make  a  brief  tribute  by  radio  from  Washington, 
and  Hon.  John  W.  Davis,  former  Ambassador  to  Great  Britain  and  for- 
mer President  of  the  American  Bar  Association,  will  make  an  address. 

WILLIAM  TECUMSEH  SHERMAN 

The  bust,  a  replica  of  the  one  made  from  life  by  Augustus  Saint- 
Gaudens,  was  provided  by  subscription  through  the  Union  Society  of 
the  Civil  W7ar  and  the  Army  and  Navy  Club  of  America,  and  the  pres- 
entation will  be  by  Thomas  Ewing,  Esq.,  President  of  the  Union 
Society  of  the  Civil  War.  It  will  be  unveiled  by  P.  Tecumseh  Sherman, 
Esq.,  son  of  the  General.  General  John  J.  Pershing,  General  of  the 
Armies  of  the  United  States  (Retired),  will  make  a  brief  tribute  by  radio 
from  Washington,  and  Major-General  Charles  P.  Summerall,  U.  S.  A., 
Commander  Second  Corps  Area,  will  speak. 


CHARLOTTE  CUSHMAN 


The  bust,  by  Frances  Grimes,  was  provided  by  popular  subscrip- 
tion, the  fund  being  the  gift  chiefly  of  men  and  women  of  the  Stage 
and  of  admirers  and  relatives  of  Miss  Cushman.  It  will  be  presented 
by  John  Drew,  Esq.,  President  of  The  Players,  and  unveiled  by  Dr. 
Allerton  S.  Cushman,  great-nephew  of  Miss  Cushman.  Otis  Skinner,  Esq., 
will  speak. 

ASA  GRAY 

The  bust,  by  Chester  Beach,  is  the  gift  of  The  Gray  Herbarium 
of  Harvard  University  and  of  friends  and  relatives  of  Dr.  Gray,  and 
will  be  presented  by  Miss  Katharine  P.  Loring,  niece  of  Mrs.  Asa  Gray. 
Miss  Alice  A.  Gray,  niece  of  Dr.  Gray,  will  unveil  the  bust.  Dr. 
Charles  W.  Eliot,  President-Emeritus  of  Harvard,  will  make  a  tribute 
by  phonofilm,  and  Professor  Benjamin  L.  Robinson,  Curator  of  the  Her- 
barium, will  speak. 

HARRIET  BEECHER  STOWE 

The  bust,  by  Brenda  Putnam,  is  the  gift  of  The  New  York  City 
Colony  of  the  National  Society  of  New  England  Women,  and  will  be 
presented  by  Mrs.  Arthur  H.  Bridge,  President  of  the  Colony.  It  will 
be  unveiled  by  Dr.  Freeman  Allen,  grandson  of  Mrs.  Stowe,  and  Rev. 
S.  Parkes  Cadman,  D.D.,  President  of  the  Federal  Council  of  Churches 
of  Christ  in  America,  will  speak. 


Special  acknowledgments  of  courteous  assistance  are  due  to  the  Radio  Corpora- 
tion of  America,  which  will  broadcast  the  entire  ceremony;  to  Dr.  LeeDe  Forest  for 
the  phonofilm  of  Dr.  Eliot,  which  he  has  personally  arranged,  and  to  the  Western 
Electric  Company  for  the  use  of  the  Public  Address  System. 


MUSIC  BY  THE  GLORIA  TRUMPETERS: 


On  leaving  the  Library:   Hymn  of  New  York  University 

"The  Palisades" 


f" Coronation  March" 

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Processionals:   -J  March  from  the  second  movement 

of  the  "Lenore"  Symphony 


Kretschmer 


Raff 


At  the  Unveiling  of  the  Busts  : 

Marshall    "O  Columbia,  the  Gem  of  the 

Ocean"  -  David  T.  Shaw 

Sherman       "Tramp,  Tramp,  Tramp,  the 

Boys  are  Marching"    -     George  F.  Root 

Cushman      Theme    from    "Romeo  and 

Juliet"         -  Gounod 

•  To  a  Wild  Rose  -       -  MacBowell 


Gray 


Stowe 


"Still,  Still  with  Thee" 

(The  words  of  this  hymn  were  written 
by  Mrs.  Stowe) 

"The  Star-Spangled  Banner" 


Barnby 


Recessional:  March  from  "Aida" 


V erdi 


Members  of  the  Gloria  Trumpeters: 


KATHERINE  WILLIAMS 
LOUISE  GURA 


CORA  ROBERTS 
MABEL  COAPMAN 


Originator  of  the  Hall  of  Fame — The  late  Henry  Mitchell  MacCracken,  D.D., 

Former  Chancellor  of  New  York  University 
Donor  of  the  Edifice — Mrs.  Finley  J.  Shepard 

Architects  of  the  Colonnade  and  Adjoining  Buildings — McKim,  Mead  &  White 
Members  of  the  Art  Committees — Paul  Wayland  Bartlett,  James  Earle  Fraser,  Anna 

Vaughan  Hyatt,  Robert  I.  Aitken,  Herbert  Adams 
Director  of  Public  Occasions — Henry  Cook  Hathaway 
Grand  Marshal — Albert  Stephens  Borgman 


PRESIDENT  ELIOT'S  TRIBUTE  TO  DR.  ASA  GRAY 


The  Hall  of  Fame,  in  passing  down  to  posterity  the  name  and 
lineaments  of  Asa  Gray,  is  commemorating  one  of  the  most  fortunate 
and  happiest  of  American  students  and  teachers.  He  was  fortunate  in 
that  his  career  lay  within  a  period  when  North  America  was  first  being 
thoroughly  explored  and  its  botanical  treasures  brought  to  light,  and  in 
that  he  was  free  alike  from  the  restrictions  of  poverty  and  from  the 
incumbrances  of  luxury.  Although  he  had  no  children,  his  home  life  illus- 
trated a  remark  of  his  friend  Charles  Robert  Darwin,  that  "with  natural 
history  and  the  domestic  affections  a  man  can  be  perfectly  happy." 

His  active  pursuit  of  botany  took  him  out-of-doors,  and  made  him 
intimate  with  Nature  in  all  her  moods  and  in  all  her  dimensions  from 
colossal  to  microscopic.  His  study  of  botany  in  broad  America  required 
him  to  travel  much,  brought  him  into  contact  with  many  scholars  of 
various  nationalities,  and  gave  him  many  friendships  founded  on  com- 
mon tastes  and  mutual  services.  All  these  were  elements  of  happi- 
ness— love  of  Nature,  acquaintance  with  the  wide  earth,  intercourse  with 
congenial  minds,  and  abiding  friendships.  With  simplicity  of  life  went 
health  and  a  remarkable  capacity  for  work  enjoyed. 

His  reputation  at  home  and  abroad,  however,  was  much  larger  than 
that  of  a  botanical  specialist.  He  was  recognized  as  a  clear  thinker  and 
strong  writer  on  philosophical  and  religious  themes. 

Finally,  Asa  Gray  enjoyed  the  satisfaction  of  having  rendered  a 
great  and  lasting  service  to  his  countrymen  and  to  mankind.  He  knew 
that  he  had  done  much  to  diffuse  among  his  countrymen  a  knowledge 
of  botany  and  a  love  for  it,  that  he  had  placed  on  firm  foundations  the 
Botanical  Department  of  Harvard  University,  and  that  the  collections 
he  had  created  there  would  have  for  future  generations  great  historical 
and  scientific  interest.  To  have  rendered  such  services  was  solid  foun- 
dation indeed  for  heartfelt  content. 

May  his  effigy  here  long  suggest  to  future  generations  what  the  dur- 
able satisfactions  of  life  really  are. 


NOTE 


The  names  to  be  inscribed  in  the  Hall  of  Fame  are  chosen  every  five  years  by  a 
College  of  Electors  consisting  of  approximately  one  hundred  American  men  and  women 
of  distinction  representing  all  sections  of  the  country  and  several  professions.  Following, 
in  order  of  selection,  are  the  names  of  the  sixty-three  persons  in  whose  honor  tablets 
have  been  placed  by  the  University,  the  busts  and  pedestals  being  the  gift  ot  cooperating 
associations  or  individuals. 


IN  THE  HALL  OF  FAME 


George  Washington* 

Mary  Lyon 

James  Fenimore  Cooper 

Abraham  Lincoln* 

|ohn  fames  Audubon 

Phillips  Brooks* 

Daniel  Webster 

James  Kent 

Emma  Willard 

Benjamin  Franklin 

Henrv  Ward  Beecher* 

Alexander  Hamilton* 

Ulvsses  Simpson  Grant* 

]oseph  Storv 

Mark  Hopkins* 

John  Marshall* 

lohn  Adams* 

Francis  Parkman 

Thomas  Jefferson* 

William  Ellery  Channing 

Louis  Agassiz 

Ralph  Wddo  Emerson* 

Gilbert  Charles  Stuart* 

Elias  Howe 

Robert  Fulton* 

Asa  Grav* 

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Joseph  Henry* 

Henrv  Wadsworth  Longfellow 

John  Quincv  Adams 

Rufus  Choate 

Washington  Irving 

james  Russell  Lowell 

Daniel  Boone 

Jonathan  Edwards 

William  Tecumseh  Sherman* 

Frances  Elizabeth  Willard* 

Samuel  Finlev  Breese  Morse 

Charlotte  Cushman* 

Samuel  Langhorne  Clemens* 

David  Glascoe  Farragut 
Henrv  Clay 

Harriet  Beecher  Stowe* 
George  Peabody 
Nathaniel  Hawthorne 
Peter  Cooper* 
Eli  Whitney 

James  Madison 
John  Greenleaf  Whittier 
William  Cullen  Brvant 
George  Bancroft 
Andrew  Jackson* 
John  Lothrop  Motley 
Maria  Mitchell* 

("  Mark  Twain  ") 

Roger  Williams 
James  Buchanan  Eads* 
William  Thos.  Green  Morton 
Patrick  Henrv 
Augustus  Saint-Gaudens 
Alice  Freeman  Palmer* 

Robert  Edward  Lee* 

Oliver  Wendell  Holmes 

Horace  Mann* 

Edgar  Allan  Poe* 

*  Busts  in  place  (including  those  unveiled  May  21,  1925).  Several  subscriptions  have  been  begun 
with  the  purpose  of  providing  other  busts. 

N.  B.  —  Societies  or  persons  interested  in  the  presentation  of  busts  not  yet  in  place  are  kindly  requested 
to  communicate  with  the  Director,  331  Mad  son  Avenue,  New  York,  in  order  to  learn  the  conditions 
governing  such  cooperation. 


THE  HALL  OF  FAME,  AT  NIGHT 


By  day,  the  city's  noise  and  blight 

Usurp  the  spirit's  throne; 
The  silence  of  the  truthful  night 

Restores  it  to  its  own. 

The  enginery  of  toil  is  still, 
Remote  are  grief  and  wars; 

Yet  vocal  is  the  quiet  hill 
Beneath  the  throng  of  stars. 

Not  here  shall  Sorrow  come  to  weep; 

Here  pilgrim  feet  rejoice. 
Not  here  the  great  departed  sleep, 

Each  is  a  living  voice. 

Elsewhere,  in  pride  of  turf  or  tomb, 
Their  welcome  dust  was  laid; 

But  stranger  to  such  solemn  gloom 
This  sacred  Colonnade. 

Not  saints  nor  demigods  we  greet, 

But  kindred  of  our  sod, 
Who,  with  far  eyes  and  faithful  feet, 

Our  course  of  nature  trod. 

I  wander  in  the  silver  night 

Along  this  Path  of  Fame, 
And  catch  some  voice  of  cheer  or  might 

At  every  cherished  name. 

From  out  the  Poets'  Corner  rings 

Full  many  a  voice  of  Pan, 
While  Emerson  supremely  sings 

The  nobleness  of  Man. 

Here  Science  tells  more  wondrous  tales 

Than  Fancy  ever  saw, 
And  shows  behind  a  hundred  veils 

The  friendliness  of  Law. 


What  brooding  spirits  haunt  the  place, 

To  guide  the  steps  that  stray, 
To  hail  our  service  to  the  race, 

Or  shame  our  recreant  day  ! 

I  wander  onward  to  the  site 

Where  stand  the  names  of  State, 

And  view  the  first  that  all  men  write 
When  they  record  the  great. 

I  greet  his  calm  face  with  a  thrill; 

His  voice  sounds  from  above — 
The  Father's,  to  whose  mighty  will 

We  owe  the  land  we  love: 

"The  world  is  calling:  will  ye  lag, 

Or  harken  to  vour  soul? 
We  fixed  the  stars  upon  the  flag 

To  make  the  sky  your  goal. 

"When  Greed  has  laid  its  vulgar  hand 

Upon  the  Ark  we  bore, 
Come,  faithful  of  our  patient  land, 

And  here  your  faith  restore. 

"  The  freedom  that  we  planned  for  all 
Let  no  false  thought  dethrone: 

Who  puts  his  neighbor's  faith  in  thrall 
Is  traitor  to  his  own. 

"  What  we  for  Fortune  plucked  from  Fate, 

We  summon  vou  to  save — 
You  who  would  keep  your  country  great, 

Yourselves  be  true  and  brave." 


O  ye,  that  gladlv  paid  the  price 
That  made  your  names  renowned, 

The  precincts  of  your  sacrifice 
Are  our  most  holy  ground. 

Robert  Underwood  Johnson. 


